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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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